Sunday, December 31, 2006

Portrait of Picasso

Today, I take a look on the history of Design to find out the related information about the so-called "Dadaism", which is considered "art against art". And I find one of the Dadaists interesting. He is Man Ray. In spite of being the Dadaist, his works of the celebrity portraits are realistic and hold in them the impressive visual description of the those celebrities.

Above is the photograph of another famous artist, Pablo Picasso by Man Ray. I'm startled by the formidable personality that's filtered out through the ordinary photograph frame. Everyone knows who Picasso is. His name becomes a subject of study. Centering Picasso firmly in the eye, Man Ray want to mention that Picasso has won his fame deservedly by a vital strength. "The painter's magnetic, penetrating stare confirms his legendarily possessive insight, and from this vantage point his relaxed hands and upper body seem particularly forceful". Ordinary as the photograph is, the spirit it possesses is more than that of today Hollywood star's photo.

Sunday, December 17, 2006

Photos Taking



When visiting my grandma's the last few months, I suddenly regcognized the repeated pattern of various kinds of water containers around the house. The natural and artificial appearances of the water containers are interesting. I liked the recursion feeling of them so I took some pictures at some different angles. Above are two of the photos, which I saved for later use.

Sunday, December 10, 2006

Identity Movie Website


The website link

Personally, I find this a very interesting movie website. The interacts, the graphics, the sounds are all nicely done. The main flow are divided into 10 stages leading you to follow the identity of the character. Each time you enter the site, there's a random character whose identity is on stage. As the plot is that you check in a motel in a rainy day to investigate, the sound are mainly the rain and the thunders.... The lighting effects on the static photos are really engaging, the rainy animations are realistic, and the interacts are varied. All enhance the mood which is dark, mysterious and disastrous.
The way they use partly hidden photograph on the black background and reveal them some more following the beat of thunder make the experience even more nice. The typography is like the wave recording of the sound, the texts that are big are the visualization of the louder voices. The crooked lines in red and white is like blood stains, sometimes they are transformed into the crooked handwriting to sketch out the routes or the targets.




Although the flow are divided into 10 different stages. The interactions provided on each stage can lead us go to the other stage rather than the next stage of the next number. The non-linear presentation in this site based on the rule "making the order and then break them". That is, they allow users to see the navigation bar with order, and lead the users on with the order for sometime and then break the order, make the user more deep into the mood of the investigation they provide.
The interacts are numerious and interesting. The main catergories of interacts are : choosing the right object, matching the objects, or arrange the objects.

Sunday, December 03, 2006

Fire


This is the photo of the gas stove fire I experimented taking. I find the flower-like shape interesting.